A celestial library globe by av Matthäus Seutter (Augsburg,

拍品描述

Globe made of papier-mâché, with hand-coloured copperplate segments. Legend with the text: Globus Coelestis / in quo / omnes Asterismi / accurate delineati / [handwritten in ink] cura Iohanis Philippi An- / drea. = (Johann Philip Andreae, globe maker in Frankfurt 1699-1760). Stand of pine and ebonised wood. Time circle, meridian arc. Height approx. 34.5 cm, diameter of the stand approx. 30 cm.

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